Officials said the death toll was expected to rise further. Read more at straitstimes.com.
LARISSA, Greece - Rescuers resumed a search on Thursday for survivors of Greece’s deadliest train crash, combing through the buckled and crushed remains ofThe high-speed passenger train with more than 350 people on board crashed head-on with a freight train near the city of Larissa late on Tuesday, and hopes of finding anyone still alive in the wreckage more than 34 hours later appeared slim.
The station master of Larissa train station was arrested on Wednesday as authorities probed the circumstances that led to the passenger train, en route to the northern city of Thessaloniki, colliding with another train carrying shipping containers coming in the opposite direction on the same track.Many of the passengers had to kick through windows to escape the flames. Temperatures in one carriage rose to 1,300 deg C after it caught fire, authorities said.
Rescue workers in Greece frantically searched for survivors after a head-on collision at high speed between a freight and passenger train. PHOTO: NYTIMES
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